In the latest episode of the No Agenda Show, hosts Adam Curry and returning guest co-host Rob Dew (Sir Deucifer) dissect the growing artificial intelligence panic, arguing it is a near-perfect rerun of the COVID-19 playbook. Broadcasting from the Hill Country of Texas, Curry and Dew combed through roughly 170 clips to trace how the narrative is being manufactured, highlighting a familiar pattern of expert priesthood, division, government regulation, and a push toward global governance. The episode, titled 'Junkie Communism,' was published on September 17, 2026.
The hosts point to recent statements from Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who grilled Treasury officials on AI safety, and Senator Bernie Sanders, who equated AI risk with nuclear weapons. They also discuss former presidential candidate Andrew Yang's CNBC appearance, where he claimed self-replicating bot swarms have polluted the internet, requiring 'synthetic internets' and a kill switch. These examples, according to Curry and Dew, illustrate how the AI threat is being amplified to justify control.
Curry's media deconstruction approach is on full display as he maps the AI hoax structure. 'The reason why I can easily explain this being a hoax, because you've got the models, the large language model, and that thing by itself... turns out wasn't very useful unless you give it access to tools... Then you have the harness. Oh, I love these terms,' Curry explains, before walking through how guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini prove companies can throttle output at will. Dew adds context from a friend's Hegelian dialectic analysis mapping eight cultural inhale-exhale cycles from 1945 to present, from the Cold War through COVID to today's AI narrative.
The conversation ranges into the effective altruism movement (with Sam Bankman-Fried as its poster child), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warnings, Jensen Huang's semiconductor push, and a Purdue University report on the 157,000-worker shortfall facing US chip fabs. Dew, who once worked at Tokyo Electron America servicing Micron and other clients, pushes back on the mystique around semiconductor manufacturing. The hosts also cover Ilhan Omar's alleged marriage fraud investigation under Tom Homan, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's Kids Act targeting social media for under-13s, Canadian MAID euthanasia expansion, the Yalta European Strategy conference attended by Boris Johnson and David Petraeus, and the mysterious glitter industry centered in New Jersey.
Other topics include President Trump's proposed $5,000 tariff dividend to every adult American citizen, and the possible stablecoin mechanism behind it; Canadian PM Mark Carney's Strasbourg speech proposing Canada become the EU's first associate member; and Houthi advances near the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the new Mecca Accords defense pact. These developments, Curry and Dew suggest, are part of a broader shift toward global governance and digital control.
The implications of this analysis are significant. If the AI doom panic is indeed a rerun of the COVID playbook, it suggests that the same forces that used a health crisis to expand government power and global governance are now using AI to achieve similar ends. Curry and Dew's deconstruction serves as a warning to listeners to remain skeptical of mainstream narratives and to recognize the patterns of manipulation. As Curry often reminds his audience, 'media deconstruction' is essential to understanding the world. The episode is available on the No Agenda Show website and wherever podcasts are heard.
